GRAINS-Wheat snaps 6-session successful streak; corn, soybeans additionally down

By Naveen Thukral and Sybille de La Hamaide

SINGAPORE/PARIS, July 22 (Reuters) – Chicago wheat futures retreated greater than 2% on Thursday after six straight classes of good points, though losses have been restricted by issues over dry climate curbing yields in prime exporters Russia and the US.

Corn and soybeans additionally slid.

“The climate state of affairs just isn’t good, it has been actually sizzling and dry in the US,” stated Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at Nationwide Australia Financial institution in Melbourne.

“However for now, we really feel the availability state of affairs has been factored into the market.”

Probably the most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Commerce (CBOT) Wv1 fell 2.4% to $6.93-1/2 a bushel, as of 1120 GMT. It scaled a two-month peak on Tuesday after official knowledge underscored poor situations for drought-hit U.S. spring wheat.

“In view of the continual rise noticed and the degrees reached, an easing motion has been noticed since this morning,” French consultancy Agritel stated in a observe.

Corn Cv1 misplaced 2.4% to $5.55 a bushel and soybeans Sv1 gave up 1.7% to $13.66-1/Four a bushel.

The wheat market is being underpinned by crop issues in North America and the Black Sea area.

Russia’s agriculture ministry stated yields from the harvest of the nation’s wheat crop averaged 3.45 tonnes per hectare as of July 20, down from 3.47 tonnes per hectare a 12 months earlier.

Operators will watch the discharge later within the day of weekly export gross sales knowledge.

Commodity funds have been internet consumers of CBOT corn, wheat and soymeal contracts on Wednesday, merchants stated. They have been internet sellers of soyoil and even in soybeans. COMFUND/CBT

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